[Solved] Screen Resolution

Good morning everyone;

I am working with a clean install of Debian Squeeze, with the XFCE window manager task selected. My primary problem is my screen resolution, with a secondary problem of only having something displayed on the left monitor.

I have a Dell Precision T5500, with dual monitors (sorry, I am unable to supply a model number for the monitors. If there is one, they managed to hide it quite effectively). The PC has dual video cards, but I am unsure just what they are. lspci gives me "VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 0df8 (rev a1)" I can crack the case and physically look if that is needed.

I can live with one display, but I am going to go blind if I do not fix the resolution. I am unable to set the resolution to the optimal of 1920x1200@60Hz. The display setting insists on 1600x1200@0Hz. I am using a DVI cable for both monitors, with the cable to the primary monitor plugged into DVI Connector-1 on the monitor, and the cable for the secondary monitor plugged into DVI Connector-2 on the monitor.

I have resolved similar issues in the past by using cvt and xrandr, but not this time:

Re: [Solved] Screen Resolution

Same problem for me. I have a 1280x1040 which runs well with windows XPI get 900x600 max with xfce 4.8 wheezyI tried xrandr but the syntax of your post is not able in my xfce wheezyPreviously : same problem on xfce 4.6 squeezeSee man xrandr.

Re: [Solved] Screen Resolution

Oh sorry, I posted because Nelson mentioned he has an NVIDIA card.SIS are more troublesome but you may find stuff with Google.BTW, the video driver installation depends on the distribution (in your case, Debian) not on the desktop environment used.

Re: [Solved] Screen Resolution

OkI found an "old" driver named xserver-xorg-video-sismedia_2008cdlinux_i386.zipAfter installing unzip and usual dpkg -i ...Restarting x : resolution grew up from 900x600 to 1024x768that's a good improvment.That fine!Thanks to the man who gave us link to the driver!Problem is solved for myself

Re: [Solved] Screen Resolution

Apologies for the extended delay in following up with this. The solution was to compile a new kernel. I went with 3.5.1, the latest and greatest stable at the time. I used Debian's make-kpkg to create a new kernel package, installed it, and booted into it. What a wonderful difference!